Tag Archives: iframe

If you’re trying out Twitter’s Web Intents Javascript Events and it’s not working, be aware that they only work if your HTML page is loaded from an HTTP server. If you open your page locally off your hard drive it won’t work, though you can fire up an Apache instance on your localhost and it’ll work from there.

I’m making a Facebook game using Django and was having a problem with Internet Explorer.

The Problem: After login the page would render correctly as if the user was logged in, but when navigating to another page it was as if the user wasn’t logged in. Upon investigation I could see that the cookies weren’t being saved.

The Solution: A quick Gogole search brought me to this blog post: IE Blocking iFrame Cookies. It’s an easy to fix P3P issue, and the author describes how to add the necessary header for various languages/frameworks.

Rather than add the header to each Django view or write custom Django middleware, I just added the header to my Apache configuration. The following goes in your VirtualHost Directive: